Posted by
ConservativeChange on Monday, October 20, 2008 11:53:08 AM
The thing about conservatives is that we follow principles not people. All of our current “leaders” could endorse Obama and the conservative base would remain basically unchanged, unless there are real conservative principles behind it. Insomuch as a person lives by the principles we follow, we can accept their representation. However, I didn’t find anything in Colin Powell’s endorsement of Obama that really represented my principles. The same is true of all the so-called conservative leaders and thinkers that hopped on the Obama train. They can’t be conservative leaders if they don’t lead in a conservative direction.
Edit: Yes, by definition leading people towards Obama can't be considered conservative. It can be considered intellectual, but not conservative. You can intellectualize your way into a lot of stupid and easily avoidable bad situations. Many of these intellectuals are the same ones that helped foist McCain on us in the first place. Now that they got their way they are leaving. We can't follow people like that. That is why I advocate following principles not people. The principle will not change even if the people who once followed it do. Conservatism has to be grounded in something deeper than people who are so easily swayed. Some of these “conservative intellectuals” that have endorsed Obama have admitted that they hope he is lying about his policies because they won’t be good for America.
Is that the kind of hope and change we want?
I think not, but I guess it is enough to satisfy the “conservative intellectual elite.”
Oh, and many thanks to Laura Ingraham for pointing out that not all intellectual conservatives are sheep trying to dress the wolf Obama like them. You can be intelligent and conservative, in fact the two work really well together.